Hi. On Asus laptop with following specifications, for NetBSD i386 7.0 installer I noticed above issue:
https://www.asus.com/in/Notebooks/X200MA/specifications/ If I connect external HDMI monitor I am able to see the text (on external as well as laptop screen). However if I do not use the external monitor the laptop screen blanks out at the point of switching the VGA mode (i.e. when the green text's font size changes). I think this change came in 7.0. Prior to that NetBSD used to boot without switching the graphics mode. Is there any way to boot in VGA mode (such as some boot option) without switching - at least when above behavior causes problems with some hardware? Mayuresh.